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Instructors: Dr. Tino Petzold
Event type:
Seminar/excursion
Displayed in timetable as:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
12 | 20
Registration group: Anthropogeographie A
Comments/contents:
Rurality is usually seen as the antithesis of urban-urbanism and is attributed to specific spaces, people and lifestyles. However, not only in recent decades has the rural area, as well as rural lifestyles, undergone such major changes that it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish them from urban life. Earlier characteristics such as the dominance of agriculture and forestry, tight social networks (great social control), village lifestyles and spatial smallness are less and less to be found, not only in the European context. Rather, with (de-)industrialisation, the Internet and increased mobility in an increasingly globalised world, service professions, creative enterprises, global networking and urban consumption patterns are becoming more prevalent in rural areas. Accordingly, both theoretical-conceptual questions on rurality and rural development are addressed and concrete problems are discussed.
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